German painting from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century,
under the influence first of Netherlandish art and next of the
Italian Renaissance, attained a high point unsurpassed in later
times. Nearly all the most important artists of the period are
represented here, from Albrecht Durer and Lucas Cranach the Elder
to Hans Maler. Ninety-one works are featured in total.
A wide range of artistic production is covered: panels from
altarpieces large and small, devotional pictures, mythological
allegories, royal and burgher portraits, painted in most major
centres from Saxony to the Rhine, Hamburg to the Tyrol. Each
painting is reproduced in colour, with paintings on reverses and
details also shown in colour.
Almost all the most important artists of the period are represented
in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection by work of their own or at
least of their circle, among them Master Bertram, Johann Koerbecke,
Derick Baegert, Michael Wolgemut, Albrecht Durer, and his leading
followers Hans Baldung Grien and Hans Suess von Kulmbach, Hans
Holbein the Elder and the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder and his
sons, Bernhard Strigel and Christoph Amberger.
Detailed bibliographies and lists of exhibitions of each painting
and artists' biographies complete the volume, which will be
welcomed not only by all museum and reference libraries, but by
everyone involved in study of the subject at all levels.